Pump.fun’s PUMP ICO Sees Strong Interest, But Another New Market Entrant Is Commanding More Attention This July
The PUMP coin sale kicked off smack on July 12, 2025, at 14:00 UTC, landing right on the moment the team promised weeks earlier. Hype was intense, and a sizable marketing war chest had fired up chatter far in advance. For the public round, 15 percent of the total cap-tokens, or 150 billion units-were offered at a set price of $0.004. Although the maximum haul was pitched at $600 million, estimates suggest that more than $500 million was raised within the first twelve minutes. When early private rounds are factored in, the full take passed the billion-dollar mark, giving PUMP a brand-new market value of $4 billion before a single trade at that level settled. Launch days like that are rare, even among the wildest meme-coin launches. The sale was conducted on Pump. fun itself and was also mirrored on prominent exchanges, including Bybit, Kraken, KuCoin, Gate.io, Bitget, and MEXC, providing buyers with multiple options. Tokens could be snapped up with USDT, USDC, SOL, and bbSOL, a mix that kept the demand boiling. True to the degen style, there is no vesting. Every token purchased during the ICO will be fully unlocked and ready to trade by July 18, 2025, setting the stage for a week of significant price fluctuations as speculators rush in and out.
